Excavation workers in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg made an unexpected discovery nearly eight meters underground in ...
When imagining our early human ancestors in prehistoric Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago, one might envision ...
In her new book, The 21st Century Brain, scientist Hannah Critchlow explores the overlooked skills that will be necessary to ...
The remains of a furnace used for heat-treating stone tools at the Xinmiaozhuang site Photo: Screenshot of a report released ...
A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...
During construction work on a stormwater overflow basin in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, archaeologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved 2,400-year-old Iron Age structure along the banks of the Main ...
The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist ...
A new analysis of crystals that formed inside one of the bones shows that the site dates back to an ice age 146,000 years ago ...
In Norway’s highest mountains, experts are scouring perilous terrain for pieces of the past, long stored in mint condition in ...
For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...
A technique that has rewritten the timeline of prehistoric art may be overestimating the ages of cave paintings, some ...
Ancient genomes from northwest Europe show that farming, foraging, migration, and marriage shaped prehistory in ways far more ...